Christopher Barker writes: > from itertools import islice > > smaller_dict = dict(islice(large_dict.items(), 0, 255)) > > which works, and isn't doing an unnecessary copying but it's pretty > darn ugly, as far as I'm concerned.
In your application, I think that's just pretty, myself. The only thing that's missing is slice notation. But that's probably not hard to implement in terms of the islice function, just completely redundant. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LPHMWNCI3VPPN7FEBEUJR4K2QDVNCPX3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
